An investigation into design and performance of supply chains for public procurement projects

Genovese, Andrea; Morris, Jonathan; Koh, S.C. Lenny; Acquaye, Adolf

doi:10.1080/09537287.2020.1837930

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“…According to the presented framework, a significant part of the issue is dedicated to the interaction of different actors of the construction industry and ETO supply chains, the coordination among them, and the configuration and the integration of functions within them. The paper "An investigation into design and performance of supply chains for public procurement projects" by Genovese, Morris, Acquaye, and Koh (Genovese et al 2020) analyzes the role of local authorities in ETO supply chains and their impact on the ETO decisions. The authors motivate their investigation based on public procurement accounting for 16% of total GDP of member states.…”

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Supply chain management in construction and engineer-to-order industries

Cigolini

Gosling

Iyer

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Production Planning & Control

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The construction industry is a key sector of every country and the application of supply chain-related techniques holds much promise to improve performance of construction firms in many ways. According to an extended view, which encompasses the construction of industrial and residential buildings, of civil engineering and infrastructure projects, there is a number of major actors that must be coordinated in some way to reach ETO decisions, leading to performance outcomes and metrics. The need to co-ordinate information across the supply chain is a persistent and pressing challenge for ETO companies. Procurement helps to establish the conditions for the supply chain to function effectively. New technologies such as product configurators or cloud manufacturing are being applied. Planning and decision making is a critical driver. In the future, the challenges of applying supply chain management techniques to a construction environment, will require more quantitative studies, to cast light on some potential gains from better information management and use of digital technologies. Then there is also an opportunity to integrate clear upfront planning and procurement with the project delivery processes, and choose the right configurations, focus and relational types. Finally, there is much potential to harness the innovation potential of SMEs.

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Section: Summary Of Papers In This Special Issuementioning

confidence: 99%

Supply chain management in construction and engineer-to-order industries

Cigolini

Gosling

Iyer

et al. 2020

Production Planning & Control

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Lessons from Canada for green procurement strategy design

Migone,

Howlett,

Howlett

2024

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We derive lessons for green public procurement (GPP) by examining it in the context of Canadian federal government expenditures in several sectors. These show that successful GPP is neither simple nor automatic but requires alignment of green policy visions between payers, purchasers and producers, and the existence of appropriate procurement frameworks to allow this alignment to persist. Attaining and maintaining this alignment longitudinally is especially difficult as priorities, and governments can change over time, ‘de-aligning’ any initial agreement on the merits of the strategy behind ‘strategic procurement’ of any kind. While less acute for short-term procurement, this problem exists for many longer-term green procurement projects and can lead to government attempts to downplay long-term efforts and seek less complex short-term purchases where alignment is easier to establish and maintain but where green efforts may be less impactful. These dynamics are illustrated in the case of green procurement efforts made in Canadian federal programmes including the little-examined but important defence sector.

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